Staff Engineer (Golang)

BlockDelta is currently collaborating with a highly talented team that is redefining mobile payments and rewards by transforming everyday shopping into a rewarding experience. They are in the process of expanding their formidable team and is seeking to hire an experienced Staff Engineer.

Ideal Candidate:

Our client is looking for an experienced Staff Engineer to lead the development and enhancement of their API infrastructure. This role emphasizes designing and deploying robust, scalable microservices solutions to support both new and existing products, ensuring high performance and seamless integration across their portfolio.

Our client is only seeking candidates who currently resides within the US.

Responsibilities:

• Drive Technical Innovation: Design and develop essential backend components while shaping the system architecture and influencing key technical decisions. Act as a trusted technical leader.
• Deliver Scalable Solutions: Build and sustain efficient, high-performance microservices using Go, PostgreSQL, and gRPC. Ensure the infrastructure is optimized for maximum scalability and speed.
• Guide and Empower: Mentor and coach team members, promoting a culture of continuous learning and professional development. Share your expertise to elevate the entire engineering team.
• Promote Development Excellence: Lead the implementation of industry best practices for software development, including rigorous testing, thorough code reviews, and seamless CI/CD pipelines to ensure high-quality and efficient code delivery.
• Engage and Collaborate: Partner with product managers and key stakeholders to gather technical requirements and transform them into actionable engineering solutions, ensuring your input is valued and impactful.
• Tackle Complex Challenges: Identify and resolve performance issues and scalability concerns proactively, embracing intricate technical problems as opportunities for innovation.
• Drive Technical Vision: Play a key role in defining the technical roadmap and strategy for the backend infrastructure, directly shaping the future of the platforms.

Skills & Qualifications:

• Over 8 years of hands-on experience in software development, with a proven track record of leading teams to deliver and maintain sophisticated systems at scale.
• Strong leadership in software engineering principles, mentoring team members in design patterns, testing strategies, and best practices around CI/CD pipelines.
• Proven hands-on experience managing high-traffic production systems processing millions of requests and transactions, with a strong focus on scalability and reliability.
• Led the design, development, and deployment of robust microservices architectures using Go and gRPC, driving best practices across engineering squads.
• Expert-level proficiency in PostgreSQL, with experience guiding teams on database design, optimization, and maintenance strategies.
• Spearheaded performance enhancement initiatives, ensuring systems are scalable, resilient, and optimized for high throughput.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional leadership skills, fostering a culture of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Deep understanding and hands-on leadership in Agile and Scrum methodologies, effectively facilitating sprint planning, retrospectives, and team ceremonies.
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience, with a continuous commitment to professional development and coaching others.

Preferred:

• Over 3 years of knowledge with Ruby & Ruby on Rails in production related environments
• Experience with Web3 and blockchain technologies, a strong understanding of decentralized systems, or experience in a Fintech, Payment Processing Environment.

This is an amazing opportunity with a highly successful and experienced Team. To apply for this role, please forward your CV using the link.

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